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<h4 class="subsubsection">9.52.4.3 Jump Relaxation</h4>
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<p>Jump instruction may require relaxation because the Xtensa jump instruction
(<code>J</code>) provide a PC-relative offset of only 128 Kbytes in either
direction.  One option is to use jump long (<code>J.L</code>) instruction, which
depending on jump distance may be assembled as jump (<code>J</code>) or indirect
jump (<code>JX</code>).  However it needs a free register.  When there&rsquo;s no spare
register it is possible to plant intermediate jump sites (trampolines)
between the jump instruction and its target.  These sites may be located in
areas unreachable by normal code execution flow, in that case they only
contain intermediate jumps, or they may be inserted in the middle of code
block, in which case there&rsquo;s an additional jump from the beginning of the
trampoline to the instruction past its end.  So, for example:
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<pre class="smallexample">    j 1f
    ...
    retw
    ...
    mov a10, a2
    call8 func
    ...
1:
    ...
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<p>might be relaxed to:
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<pre class="smallexample">    j .L0_TR_1
    ...
    retw
.L0_TR_1:
    j 1f
    ...
    mov a10, a2
    call8 func
    ...
1:
    ...
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<p>or to:
</p>
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<pre class="smallexample">    j .L0_TR_1
    ...
    retw
    ...
    mov a10, a2
    j .L0_TR_0
.L0_TR_1:
    j 1f
.L0_TR_0:
    call8 func
    ...
1:
    ...
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<p>The Xtensa assempler uses trampolines with jump around only when it cannot
find suitable unreachable trampoline.  There may be multiple trampolines
between the jump instruction and its target.
</p>
<p>This relaxation does not apply to jumps to undefined symbols, assuming they
will reach their targets once resolved.
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<p>Jump relaxation is enabled by default because it does not affect code size
or performance while the code itself is small.  This relaxation may be
disabled completely with &lsquo;<samp>--no-trampolines</samp>&rsquo; or &lsquo;<samp>--no-transform</samp>&rsquo;
command-line options (see <a href="Xtensa-Options.html#Xtensa-Options">Command Line Options</a>).
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